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I dunno, London is getting up there. I'm sure London, England has more murders per captia than quite a few major US cities.

aqme28 4y ago
At about 1.4 it's still pretty low compared to American cities. It's also not really "getting up there" as it appears to be on a relative decline lately.
- that_guy_iain 4y ago
  That decline comes round about when they started to cut police funding. Curious. Kinda like they stopped finding the bodies.
  - aqme28 4y ago
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/864491/london-police-budget-size/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/864491/london-police-bud... Not really sure what you're talking about.
    - that_guy_iain 4y ago
      The stats you link to a meaningless. The city of London don't set the budget for their police. That is a matter handled by the British goverment and according to them they've been decreasing it for 8-years straight. > When compared with the previous year, overall funding for policing (including any in-year adjustments) for the financial year ending March 2023 will increase by 2.8% in real terms. This will be the eighth consecutive year in which policing funding has increased in real terms https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2023/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2023 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-...
bestcoder69 4y ago
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dontupvoteme 4y ago
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beAbU 4y ago
UK is not Europe. London is not a European city.
- tomrod 4y ago
  UK is part of the European continent in terms of culture and geology. Perhaps you mean the EU, which is only part of Europe, instead of the continent itself.
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- luckylion 4y ago
  Has the UK left the continent? What?
  - dontupvoteme 4y ago
    "Continental" has been a pejorative in English for centuries. They're not Europeans. They're Brits.
  - ponector 4y ago
    We should compare San Francisco to other American cities, like Tijuana.
phphphphp 4y ago
There's probably some examples, but the US has such an outsized per-capita murder rate that it's not particularly comparable even when trying to select the best examples. If you stretch the definition of "major" and "comparable" then it's possible to find examples where they're somewhat similar but it requires a lot of stretching and is no longer representative. There's hundreds of cities in America with a murder rate higher than that of London. The US has a homicide rate approaching something like an order of magnitude higher than the UK (8/100k vs. 1/100k last I read).
DrBazza 4y ago
London is quite low but unfortunately death by stabbing in the teens-to-20s age group has increased dramatically over the last two decades. If you're not in that demographic, you're probably fine.

aqme28 4y ago

At about 1.4 it's still pretty low compared to American cities. It's also not really "getting up there" as it appears to be on a relative decline lately.

that_guy_iain 4y ago
That decline comes round about when they started to cut police funding. Curious. Kinda like they stopped finding the bodies.
- aqme28 4y ago
  https://www.statista.com/statistics/864491/london-police-budget-size/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/864491/london-police-bud... Not really sure what you're talking about.
  - that_guy_iain 4y ago
    The stats you link to a meaningless. The city of London don't set the budget for their police. That is a matter handled by the British goverment and according to them they've been decreasing it for 8-years straight. > When compared with the previous year, overall funding for policing (including any in-year adjustments) for the financial year ending March 2023 will increase by 2.8% in real terms. This will be the eighth consecutive year in which policing funding has increased in real terms https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2023/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2023 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-...

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dontupvoteme 4y ago

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beAbU 4y ago

UK is not Europe. London is not a European city.

tomrod 4y ago
UK is part of the European continent in terms of culture and geology. Perhaps you mean the EU, which is only part of Europe, instead of the continent itself.
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luckylion 4y ago
Has the UK left the continent? What?
- dontupvoteme 4y ago
  "Continental" has been a pejorative in English for centuries. They're not Europeans. They're Brits.
- ponector 4y ago
  We should compare San Francisco to other American cities, like Tijuana.

phphphphp 4y ago

There's probably some examples, but the US has such an outsized per-capita murder rate that it's not particularly comparable even when trying to select the best examples. If you stretch the definition of "major" and "comparable" then it's possible to find examples where they're somewhat similar but it requires a lot of stretching and is no longer representative. There's hundreds of cities in America with a murder rate higher than that of London. The US has a homicide rate approaching something like an order of magnitude higher than the UK (8/100k vs. 1/100k last I read).

DrBazza 4y ago

London is quite low but unfortunately death by stabbing in the teens-to-20s age group has increased dramatically over the last two decades. If you're not in that demographic, you're probably fine.